📜 Terms of Service

Last updated: August 2026

By downloading, installing, or using NextCue: Bill & Life Reminder ("the App"), you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, please do not use the App.

1. Description of Service
NextCue is a free Android application that helps you remember bills, document renewals, subscriptions, rent, warranties, birthdays, and other recurring or one-time events. All features are provided free of charge, with no advertisements and no in-app purchases.

2. Reminders Are a Convenience, Not a Guarantee
The App is a personal reminder tool. It is your responsibility to actually pay bills, renew documents, and meet deadlines. Alarm delivery on Android depends on your device's settings, power state, and the manufacturer's battery-management behaviour, none of which the App fully controls. Do not rely on the App as your only safeguard for a legally or financially critical deadline.

3. Your Responsibilities
You're responsible for the accuracy of the dates, amounts, and details you enter. You're also responsible for keeping your device secure, since data stored on your device — and any optional Google Drive backup — can be accessed by anyone with access to your device or Google account.

4. Optional Google Drive Backup
If you choose to enable Google Drive backup, your reminders and history are stored in your own Google Drive account, in a folder named "NextCue Backups," created and managed by the App. You can disable this feature, sign out, and delete your backup data from within the App at any time. See the Privacy Policy for full details.

5. No Warranty
The App is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied — including reliability of alarm delivery under all device conditions, particularly on Android devices where the manufacturer's battery-optimization behaviour can interfere with background apps.

6. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the developer is not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the App — including a missed bill payment, an expired document, a late fee, or a lapsed subscription.

7. Changes to the App and These Terms
Features may be added, changed, or removed in future updates. These Terms may be updated from time to time; continued use of the App after a change means you accept the revised Terms.

8. Termination
You may stop using the App at any time by uninstalling it. Uninstalling removes locally stored data from your device; any Google Drive backup you created remains in your own Google Drive until you delete it yourself.

9. Contact
Questions about these Terms can be sent to [email protected].

📋 About

NextCue is designed for people who want reliable, private reminders for the everyday things they currently track with sticky notes, memory, or nothing at all. All data lives on your device by default — no accounts required, no data collection, no ads.

It is a deliberate companion to Medicine & Health Reminder, built on the same production-hardened alarm engine, generalized beyond medicine to every other kind of recurring life event. NextCue isn't a to-do app or a project manager — there are no subtasks, projects, or collaboration features, and that's intentional. It does one thing: make sure you never forget a bill, a renewal, or a date that matters.

Features

  • 68 ready-made templates across 7 buckets — Bills, Personal Events, Home & Lifestyle, Subscriptions, Renewals, Maintenance, and Health
  • Today view grouping reminders as Today / Tomorrow / This Week / Later
  • Expiry-based smart renewal reminders with automatic lead-time alerts (6 months, 3 months, 1 month, 1 week before)
  • Recurrence options — one-time, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly
  • Full-screen alarm alerts with Done and Snooze actions
  • Swipe-to-done and swipe-to-snooze with Undo
  • Automatic snooze for unattended alarms, and missed-marking after repeated no-response
  • Reminders automatically restore after device reboot
  • History tab logging every done, snoozed, and missed action, with one-tap Restore
  • Reminder Reliability panel with live status checks and one-tap fixes
  • Four alarm tones, adjustable snooze duration, and a fully silent mode
  • Sort by time, name, or next occurrence; browse by category
  • Live search across all reminders
  • Pause all reminders temporarily with one tap
  • Share your full reminder list via WhatsApp, SMS, or email
  • Optional Google Drive backup and restore, with optional automatic weekly backup
  • Secure local data storage — no server required

🔐 Data Privacy

User privacy is a core principle of this application.

  • Data stored locally on the user's own device by default
  • No account required to use the app
  • No personal data stored on developer-owned servers
  • Google Drive backup is completely optional and off until you sign in
  • User data is never sold or shared with third parties
  • No advertisements — no advertising SDKs used
  • No analytics or tracking libraries of any kind
  • No camera, location, contacts, or SMS permissions requested

☁️ Google Drive Backup

The application optionally supports Google Drive backup and restore using the Google Drive scope:

drive.file

This lets you back up your reminders and history to your own Google Drive, so they survive a phone change, loss, or theft — and restore them on a new device in seconds.

The backup is written to a visible folder named "NextCue Backups" in your own Drive, so you can find, download, or delete the file yourself at any time. The app cannot access any other files, photos, videos, or documents in your Google Drive — the drive.file scope restricts it to only the file it created itself.

Backup options inside the app:

  • Back up now — a manual, one-time upload
  • Automatic weekly backup — optional silent background backup
  • Backup reminder — optional weekly or monthly nudge if you prefer backing up manually; uploads nothing on its own
  • Restore — replaces device data with your saved backup
  • Delete backup from Drive — permanently removes the backup file

🛡️ Permissions Used

⏱️ Exact Alarm Scheduling
Ensures reminders fire at the precise scheduled time, not approximately
🔔 Notifications
Display reminder alerts when they are due
📺 Full-Screen Alerts
Show the full-screen alarm screen for due reminders
🔁 Boot Completed
Restore reminders automatically after device restart
📳 Vibration & Wake Lock
Alarm vibration, and reliable tone playback while the screen is off
🔋 Battery Optimization
Optional, user-triggered — stops battery managers delaying alarms
🌐 Internet Access
Used only by the optional Google Drive backup feature, and only after you sign in. Not used for any other purpose.

NextCue does not request camera, microphone, contacts, SMS, call log, location, or photo/storage permissions.

⚙️ Technical Overview

  • Platform: Android (Kotlin), minimum Android 5.0 (API 21), targets Android 16 (API 36)
  • Storage: SharedPreferences + JSON — no database, no server
  • Alarm engine: exact alarm scheduling, ported from Medicine & Health Reminder
  • Package: com.rafiqctgbd.nextcue
  • Backup: Google Sign-In with Drive REST API v3, drive.file scope
  • Brand colour: cyan #00C4B4, deliberately distinct from Medicine & Health Reminder's blue

👨‍💻 Developer

R
Rafiqul Islam
Senior IT Manager · AKS Khan Diagnostics Ltd, Chittagong
github.com/rafiqctgbd